• Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 250.
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Forel, 1914a: 272.
• Combination in Colobopsis: Mayr, 1862: 691; Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 403; Roger, 1863b: 10; Smith, 1865a: 68; Mayr, 1870b: 944 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 308; Mayr, 1876: 68; Dalla Torre, 1893: 250; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Mann, 1921: 499 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 146; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 459; Wheeler, 1935g: 43; Donisthorpe, 1943e: 458; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227; Dlussky, 1994a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 121; McArthur, 2012: 217.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus rufifrons
• Formica rufifrons

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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